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Hello everybody!

It's been a while! I am here in US since 11/18. I have been working and accommodating to my new place.

I hope you can help me with a question: I received my SSC and permanent resident card with my maiden name (which is really long), I thought I would receive them with my husband's last name. Now I want to change my name for my husband's last name. we got married in Dominican Rep. I went to the SSA and the lady suggested me to change my name in my green card first and then in my SSC to avoid confusions. But when i go to the USCIS site, the only reasons to change your legal name are: USCIS error, legal name changed since the green card issuance and some others. And that cost me 365.00 :blush:

Any ideas about what to do?

I'll appreciate it

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Marriage: 2007-10-20

I-130 Sent : 2008-02-28

I-130 Approved : 2009-09-15

NVC Received : 2010-08-17

Received DS-3032 / I-864 Bill : 2010-09-01

Pay I-864 Bill 2010-09-01

Receive I-864 Package : 2010-09-03

Return Completed DS-3032 : 2010-09-01

Receive IV Bill : 2010-09-14

Pay IV Bill : 2010-09-17

Case Completed at NVC : 2010-09-23

NVC Left : 2010-09-23

Consulate Received : 2010-09-27

Case was expedited to consulate in Santo Domingo on 09/23/2010.

Packet 4 received: 10/20/2010 (my anniversary!! and good news)

Interview Date: 10/28/2010

Consulate - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Medical: 10/21/2010

Results: pick up on 10/27/2010

VISA APPROVED

Passport received: 11/04/2010

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POE at Orlando, FL: 11/18/2010

Welcome Letter: 12/11/2010

Green Card: 12/20/2010

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CQ & CS   2

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Hello everybody!

It's been a while! I am here in US since 11/18. I have been working and accommodating to my new place.

I hope you can help me with a question: I received my SSC and permanent resident card with my maiden name (which is really long), I thought I would receive them with my husband's last name. Now I want to change my name for my husband's last name. we got married in Dominican Rep. I went to the SSA and the lady suggested me to change my name in my green card first and then in my SSC to avoid confusions. But when i go to the USCIS site, the only reasons to change your legal name are: USCIS error, legal name changed since the green card issuance and some others. And that cost me 365.00 :blush:

Any ideas about what to do?

I'll appreciate it

What state are you in?

Our AOS Journey started:

Nov 06, 2010: CS & CQ got married in Las Vegas

Nov 26, 2010: AOS-EAD-AP package sent out

Nov 29, 2010: Package delivered at 1:12pm

Dec 10, 2010: Received text messages from USCIS regarding receipt numbers for AOS, EAD, and AP

Dec 14, 2010: Received three I-797C from mail

Dec 18, 2010: Touched

Jan 05, 2011: Received RFE for I-485 (email)

Jan 10, 2011: Received RFE for I-485 (hardcopy)

Jan 11, 2011: Sent response to RFE for I-485 (Fedex/UPS do not deliver to PO Box. Only USPS does and it takes 2 days even for Express Post)

Jan 13, 2011: Response to RFE delivered

Jan 14, 2011: Touched

Jan 15, 2011: Touched

Jan 18, 2011: Received Biometric Appointment letter in mail

Jan 21, 2011: Biometric Appointment (Walk-in Successful)

Feb 10, 2011: Biometric Appointment (Originally Scheduled)

Feb 12, 2011: Received 1st text/email for EAD card in production and AP was APPROVED

Feb 17, 2011: Received 2nd text/email for EAD card in production

Feb 18, 2011: Received 3rd text/email for EAD card has been mailed out

Feb 18, 2011: Received AP!!!! YAY!!!!

Feb 22, 2011: Received EAD!!!!

Feb 22, 2011: Received letter for 2nd fingerprints :(

Mar 17, 2011: 2nd fingerprints

May 02, 2011: AOS Interview Approved!!!!!!

May 07, 2011: Received "Welcome to America" letter

May 09, 2011: Received Green Card. Yay!!!!!

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Y&E   12

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Curious as to why you didn't apply for your green card in your married name.

It looks like you have 2 choices:

1. Retain your maiden name as your only legal name and don't change SSN or GC. Everything that you then do such as driver licence and bank accounts will then be in this name.

2. Pay the fee to change the name on your GC to your husband's name, this is now your legal name, and then change it on your SSN when you receive the new GC. You will then use your GC with your new name to do the above.

Not everyone uses their husband's name and that's legal. As you stated, the only way to get a replacement GC for free is if there is an administrative error (I know, they spelled my last name wrong, admin error).

Hope that helps, good luck.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Keep your name until you have to apply for ROC. At that time use your married name, and it's free. Once you have your new Green Card in your married name, you go to the SSA office and apply for a new SSN card. Thereafter you can change your driver license, your bank ATM card, your credit cards, your car titles, car insurance . . . you basically can keep yourself busy for a long time. Or you just keep your name . . .

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

Howlong? Explorer

Howlong?   0

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Thanks to all! I am in Florida.

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Marriage: 2007-10-20

I-130 Sent : 2008-02-28

I-130 Approved : 2009-09-15

NVC Received : 2010-08-17

Received DS-3032 / I-864 Bill : 2010-09-01

Pay I-864 Bill 2010-09-01

Receive I-864 Package : 2010-09-03

Return Completed DS-3032 : 2010-09-01

Receive IV Bill : 2010-09-14

Pay IV Bill : 2010-09-17

Case Completed at NVC : 2010-09-23

NVC Left : 2010-09-23

Consulate Received : 2010-09-27

Case was expedited to consulate in Santo Domingo on 09/23/2010.

Packet 4 received: 10/20/2010 (my anniversary!! and good news)

Interview Date: 10/28/2010

Consulate - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Medical: 10/21/2010

Results: pick up on 10/27/2010

VISA APPROVED

Passport received: 11/04/2010

U.S

POE at Orlando, FL: 11/18/2010

Welcome Letter: 12/11/2010

Green Card: 12/20/2010

 
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